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  1. So Intel finally adopt something that the modding community have been doing for years? Seriously late to the game guys. There's a reason Intel de-lidding is frequently done while there's borderline no point in doing it on AMD's high end offerings.

  2. Re: Just a cartoon artist on Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure what "naievity" means. Fail.

    Please help me here. Are you saying that you don't understand the GP's comment and thus have "Fail"'d yourself in an incredible display of self awareness?

  3. Re:Just a cartoon artist on Stan Lee, Marvel Comics' Real-Life Superhero, Dies at 95 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    Just a cartoon artist

    Says a person who can't even bother using a pseudonym. You may consider him just a cartoon artists, but we don't even know if you're a human. I personally think you're Cortana gone rogue, I do imagine Cortana to be a DC fan.

  4. Re:What will that do to my firewall rules? on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I really don't want to spend the money on a new firewall just to support web browsing.

    Nothing, which is kind of the point of this protocol.

  5. Re: I won't hold my breath.... on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    They wake up one day and all their computers have IPv6 addresses and more than half of their traffic is IPv6. Not only did they not do anything to make it happen they don't even know what IPv6 is.

    Not at all. They may wake up one day to hear about this IPv6 thing only to find that their modem doesn't support it, their switches doesn't support it and even if it did, their ISP doesn't provide them with a publically routable IP address.

    Comparing IPv6 to what is being proposed here is idiotic to the highest order and serves only to show an incredible lack of critical thinking skills.

    On the other hand expect users to have exactly the reaction you described to QUIC

  6. Re:Go Israel! on Israel Aims To Ban Gasoline, Diesel Vehicles By 2030 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Petroleum is too valuable to burn. It may not be wortheless in our lifetimes but at the rate we are going it may become priceless.

  7. Re:Bait and switch headline much? on US Chip Cards Are Being Compromised In the Millions (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    These incentives will talk more loudly than people preaching better security.

    Or back in reality: People don't care. That is shown quite clearly by the USA having some of the slowest and most lacklustre adoption to CHIP + STUPIDITY in the developed world.

    I mean you could do it like the rest of the world where the evil government forces a multinational megacorp literally swimming in cash to dip into that cash to provide updated systems to their merchants and then force adoption of said system by making the use of a mag stripe illegal. But no, evil government is evil, free market will solve everything, and in theory communism also works.

  8. Protection does not require complete lockdown. Simply a warning that the maid was up to evil is enough. That way you have some form of protection and repairability at the same time.

    In other news my phone puts some red text on the top of my screen saying that Knox is disabled and that custom software is running on it. I'm okay with this.

  9. Irrelevant. The issue is more fundamental than that: How do you define hatespeech.

  10. Faraday cages require a ground, i.e. they are not portable. But there should be some way of blocking radio reception. In our Faraday cage at work, I was still able to communicate with WiFi routers outside the cage; they are not perfect.

    It depends on what you are doing. If your goal is to block a radio signal you don't need to ground a faraday cage. If your goal is to protect people or equipment including from the faraday cage itself then it should be grounded to avoid a charge building up on it or currents flowing through it when you touch it.

  11. Re: I won't hold my breath.... on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Simpler? Updating EVERY running web server?

    Anecdote: One day in 2015 I woke up to find my webserver supported TLS 1.2

    I did need to restart the running instances, but yes updating EVERY running web server is simpler.

  12. Re:I won't hold my breath.... on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Introducing a new protocol that works with existing infrastructure is completely different than introducing a new protocol that can ride on existing routeable packets using existing hardware and a customised software stack.

    TLS was adopted quickly
    HSTS was adopted quickly
    AMP for worse (not better) was adopted quickly

  13. Re:problems with SCTP and QUIC on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    but google et al dont seem to care

    Why should they? It's not their job to optimise infrastructure someone else runs, just like it's no the job of car manufacturers to install traffic lights at intersections when they introduced something that actually moves faster than a horse.

  14. Re:SCTP on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Why that compulsion to re-invent the Wheel?

    What you really need is one of these: https://www.snydersantiqueauto... I mean why bother changing any part of the wheel design. That one spins right? So it is clear that there is no possible way it can be improved...

  15. Re:NOOOOOO! on The Next Version of HTTP Won't Be Using TCP (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Hardly. It's an Android feature that only works in Android and Google happen to call out in their own browser on their own website and that's about it.

    If you're going to call out an example of IE6ness then pick something like Accellerated Mobile Pages. That is something that affects multiple services across multiple devices and is not a standard in any form.

  16. Re:Capitalism on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    I think I've seen that 3 times in all my years of flying.

    I meant exit row and every plane has them. The larger the plane the more of them there are, and even assuming they didn't have them most planes also offer a premium economy service and some flights that I've been on offer perfectly tiered legroom on purchasing where you can select Economy, Economy + 3" legroom, Economy + 6" leg room, an exit row (usually closer to 12" legroom), premium economy (extra leg room + extras) or business. Though *that* level of tiering is something I've only seen a few times. Normal flights only have 2 tiers + the exit row option.

    I've never seen a flight which doesn't allow you to upgrade your leg room, and I fly at least once a month with no airline affiliation so I end up with wide and varied companies. British Airways charge £20 for the exit row. Transavia €15. Iberia was an odd case since my company booked the ticket. When I boarded in Italy I asked to be moved to the exit row and I got it for free, when I borded in Spain for the second leg they charged me €10. Last month I flew with Pegasus to Israel whom I had never heard of before, that was especially cheap at €10 to select the exit row though the package included seat selection which normally is €10 already. At AUA I got it for free. QANTAS charge through the fucking nose you may as well chose premium economy. KLM ... The Dutch are tall, they are the only airline I don't actually bother with a seat upgrade since there's so much space already in economy.

    The options are there if you care to look.

  17. Re:Brussels flies up its own colon on YouTube CEO Says EU's Proposed Copyright Regulation Financially Impossible (googleblog.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We will gladly honor your right to be forgotten.

    Yes you will. And you will bend over backwards to keep content coming our way while doing so. Just like companies bend over backwards to appease Chinese censors. Some markets are too big to ignore, and as often is with empty threats, those markets are usually worth far more than the cost of compliance despite the ensuing bitching and moaning.

  18. YouTube can just block all of the EU and watch the hilarity.

    As someone who wants to watch Google fail I say DO IT! Go on, DO IT.

    The funny thing about trying to block a good portion of the wealthy west is that shareholders don't think too highly of the move. Even funnier if you're an advertisement company since your actual source of revenue doesn't think highly of it either.

  19. Re:get some furniture quality hardwood on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh indeed, but that case is about to be 25% more expensive ;-P

  20. Re:Capitalism on Why Bigger Planes Mean Cramped Quarters (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    What kind of strange flights do you take? I literally pay between $10 and $25 dollars to upgrade my flight to the exit room on a monthly basis. Or let me guess, you're going to reference some intercontinental flight and claim because you can't buy it for $15 somehow my point that what you want is available for a price somehow is invalid. But hey if that's how your brain works, more power to you. I'll tell your carer to give you a gold star.

  21. Re:Oh get real on The Problem Behind a Viral Video of a Persistent Baby Bear (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey despite everyone's best attempts no state has so far made it illegal to be a useless dick. You're safe for the foreseeable future.

  22. Re:Running out......again on The World is Running Out of Sand, and People Are Dying as a Result (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    How pray tell do we have an ever growing population on planet Earth, including the non-rich countries of which you speak, if 1.1B people do not have access to safe drinking water?

    That is the dumbest and most nonsense comment on the internet. I'm not sure what's worse, your thought that everyone suddenly dies because of unsafe drinking water, or that the death rate is not independent from birth rate and that I can only imagine if you extend your logic the human race can't grow unless we all live for ever.

    I apologize. I said you're the problem and that it looks like you may not always have been. But given your critical thinking ability I was wrong. You clearly always have been. ... Or have early onset dementia.

  23. Re:get some furniture quality hardwood on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    As someone who did just that let me say it's not as easy as you may think. I finally got rid of my 15 year old hand build case this year for an off the shelf one due to a component upgrade not playing well with the poor airflow and insulation properties of the materials.

    Despite what it may look like, designing high end and flexible cases is actually not trivial and even companies in the business for many years can often get things quite wrong, especially when they prioritise form over function.

  24. Re:Red herring on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It's too bad that machined sheet metal is too difficult technically speaking for an American company to start producing. Whatever will we do?

    Here's a business idea: Why not open up a factory and start producing. I mean right now you have just had your golden opportunity handed to you right?

    Or maybe despite your post you understand that bending a piece of metal and covering with spraypaint may sound like a fun weekend project, but is not as trivial when you ship 40000 of the things yearly, and propose to do so in a country where tariffs have been applied on the raw materials used by your #MAGA factory with your #MAGA workforce, all the while realising that this #MAGA obsession is likely temporary and the rug will be pulled out from under your factory by the next administration shortly.

    Common. It's easy.

    Just Do It. ... Bad choice, I think that's the slogan of a Chinese sweatshop.

  25. Re:Interesting Thing About Tariffs on 'Why PC Builders Should Stock Up on Components Now' (pcmag.com) · · Score: 1

    You are fundamentally right about tariffs. However you can be against the application of them in certain situations. You see what you propose is to level a playing field which fundamentally works only before the game has started. What's happening right now is that the playing field is leveled at half time. The jobs have left the country, the investment has occurred overseas, and the end result now is that consumers who have gotten a taste and an addiction to a certain life style and a certain cost of goods suddenly are faced with a new cost that was brought in jarringly quickly without transition, and for incredibly dubious reasons.

    There are ways to level the playing fields which don't end up screwing the local economy. A sudden introduction of a tariff isn't it.